Corfield originally pleaded not guilty to the seven charges before reversing his plea earlier this year.

Barrister Chris Leahy said it was clear through the reports tended to the court, that his client was “trying to avoid some responsibility.”

“He’s got a long and unresolved history of drug taking,” he said.

“The defendant is, not surprisingly, ashamed and disgusted by what has happened.”

The court heard the 42-year-old had left school in Year 9 and had a limited work history and no qualifications.

“It’s a single course of conduct over time,” Mr Leahy said of the child pornography charges.

“His record is most unattractive.”

An amount of cannabis was also found inside Corfield’s home and he subsequently admitted to three counts of possessing a prohibited drug. In sentencing this week, Mr Holmes told the court “little can be said” about Corfield’s history, which he said was littered with a combination of “criminality, drug abuse, violence, intimidation and assault.”

The 42-year-old was jailed for 18 months on each of the pornography charges with 12 months non-parole, and one month for each of the three drug offences, to be served concurrently.